Money-registering device



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H. J. ANDERSON. MONEY EEGISTEEING DEVICE.

Patented Jan. 21, 1890.

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, H. J. ANDERSON. MONEY REGISTERING DEVICE. No. 419,620. 4Patenteu Jan. 21, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HANS J. ANDERSON, OF LAKE MILLS, VVlSOONSIN.

MoNEY -REG|STER|NG DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 419,620, dated January 21, 1890.

Application filed December 24, 1888. Serial Nol 294,456. (No model.) y

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HANS J. ANDERSON, of Lake Mills, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Money-Registering Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for `receiving and holding coins and for registering the amount of money received, and to give notice thereof by a sound that can be understood at a dist-ance from the device.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective `of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a view from the front of the rear part of the mechanism of my device, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a top View or plan of the mechanism of the complete device. Fig. 4 is a vert-ical transverse section of the complete device on line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a det-ail of a portion of registering lever and cylinder and of a check-pawl used in connection therewith.

Figs. 6 and 7 are detailsof the sight-tablet and its guide. Fig; 8 is modified form of tablet and guide. p

The same letters and figures refer to like parts in all the views.

A is the case of the device, on and within which the other parts of the device are supported. It is provided with feet B B and with a bank-note or bill drawer O, and also has an aperture D for the discharge of coins from the device. A series of boxes or hoppers E E, aixed to the case and provided with slotsat the bottom thereof for the passage of coin therethrough, are located above the coin-tubes, respectively, and are adapted for receiving and permitting the coin to pass therethrough into the tubes.

A series of upright tubes l l are located in the front part of the device, and are of differyent sizes, being adapted for receiving coins of various sizes and of the values of one dollar, fifty cents, twenty-five cents, ten cents, and iive cents, respectively. These tubes are open at the top, and at the bottom are each provided with a horizontal aperture, through which slides horizontally aplnnger 2 2, which is a plate or vstrap of metal not quite so thick as the coin which it is intended and adapted 5 5 to push out of the tube. These plungers 2 2 are each provided with a rack 3 of cog-teeth adapted to mesh with cog-teeth 4 4 on the segmental end of one arm of the bell-crank lever 5. There is a bell-crank lever 5 for 6r each of the coin-tubes and plungers, each of which levers is provided with a characterplate knob 6, all the crank-levers being pivoted on the rod 7 and each being provided with a retrieving-spring 8, adapted to raise the front arm of the lever and to force the plunger 2 forward into the position shown in Fig. 4. These plungers reciprocate forward and back on the bottom of the case, their front ends passing beneath the coin-tubes, 7o and they are adapt-ed for forcing coins out of the tube onto the table 9 in the bottom of the case in front of the aperture D.

A lockingbar l0, extending across the device in the rear of the crank-levers 5 5, is piv- 75 oted at each end in the free ends of the swinging arms 1l ll, which arms at their other ends are rigid on the oscillating rod l2, which is pivoted and supported in the case. This locking-bar l0 is operated by means of '8o the cranklever 13, which is pivoted at its angle to the side of the case and is 4connected at the extremity of one of its arms by the link let to the front edge of the bar l0, and this bar is adapted to be thrown down in a horizontal position behind'the crank-levers 5 5 when in the position shown in Fig. 4, thereby locking them in that position firmly but yieldingly, the arms ll ll being held toward the front by the springs l5 15, attached 9o thereto and to a supporting-plate 16, which is rigid to the case A. A clapper 17 is aiiiXed rigidly to the rod l2 and is so located that when the bar l0 is thrown down behind the cranks 5 5 any attempted depression of the 95 front ends of any one of the cranks 5 5 will force the bar l0 rearwardly, and thereby oscillate the rod l2 sufficiently to bring the clapper 17 in contact with a bell located near thereto, as seen in Fig. 4.

`A number of registering-cylinders 18 18y are supported in the upper rear part of the case on a fixed rod or axle 19, which axle is rigid on the case. These cylinders rotate in- IOO dependently of each other, and are each provided with crown-toothed lateral edges 2O 20, and are also each provided with a continuous line ot` figures 2l, commencing with l and continuing upward in the regular order of enumeration, which line of figures is on the periphery, commencing near one edge and continuing about the cylinder in helical form, terminating at the other edge of the cylinder in corresponding helical manner. A sight-tablet 23 is hung on two horizontal rods 2i 2l near to and in front of each cylinder. These tablets are mo fable laterally on the rods 2l 2i. Each of these sight-tablets 23 is provided with an aperture 25, through which a single number on the cylinder beneath may be seen. A small guide 2G, hinged on the upper rod 24 and fitted into a slot in the tablet 23, is adapted to enter and travel in the groove 22, whereby the tablet is moved laterally on the rods 2l 2i as the cylinder 1S rotates. A small spring-latch 27 is fixed to the tablet 23 and is adapted to enter a recess 28 in the end of the guide 2G and lockit in position in its groove. This latch may be sprung out of 'its seat in the guide and release it, so that the guide can be swung upwardly, as seen in Fig. 6, and the tablet can then be moved to the right or left en its supportingrods, as desired. A frame 29 about each cylinder' is pivoted on the axle 19 and is provided with an arm 30, terminating in a character-plate knob 3l. A spring-pawl 32 is secured at one end to the arm 30, and the tree end of said pawl engages yieldingly with the adjacent crown-teeth 2O on the edge of the cylinder 1S, so that as the arm 30 of the frame is depressed it rotatcs the cylinder to the extent of one notch. A retrieving-spring 33 is secured at one end to the rear of the frame 29 and at the other end to the case, and is adapted to throw the front end of the frame 29, with its arm 30, upwardly into the position shown in Fig. et. A spring check-pawl 3i is tixed and supported on a rod 35, fixed in the case A, the free end of which spring check-pawl 3i engages yieldingly with the crown-teeth on the other edge of the cylinder, and are adapted to prevent the cylinder from rotating forward more than one tooth at each depression of the arm 80. The spring check-pawl Eil-passes over an arm of the frame 29, whereby the pawl is thrown out of engagement with the crown-teeth of the cylinder when the front edge of the arm is thrown upward, as shown in Fig. 4, and is only permitted to engage the crown-teeth on the cylinder for a moment when the arm 30 is depressed. A pawl 36 is pivoted in a bracket 37, which bracket is supported on a rod 38,ixed in the case. The tree end of the pawl 3G bears against the crown-teeth and drops into the recesses between them on the edge of the cylinder 18, and the pawl is rigid on its axle, which passes through the bracket 37, and on the other end of its axle is xed the clapper-arm 39. This clapper-arm 39 at one end is provided with a retrieving-spring 40, which is attached at one end to the rod 3S, whereby the pawl 3G is held yieldingly in contact with the crown-toothed edge of the cylinder, and at the other end the arm 39 is provided with a bell-clapper 4l, adapted to strike against a bell 42, which is supported on the ease A. There is such a pawl and bellclapper provided for use in connection with each one of the several cylinders, and therefore a series of bells 42 42 42 42 42 ot ditferenttones, so that the sound produced by depressing any one of the registeringkuobs 3l 3l will be diierent from the sound produced by depressing any other ot the several knobs, whereby a person at a distance from the box may know which one of the knobs has been depressed.

A hinged lid 4:3 is provided on the case A, covering an aperture provided for readily getting at the tablets 23 23 to replace them in position at the beginning ot the column of figures on the registering-cylinders cach morning, or at such other time as may be dcsired.

It will be understood that by depressing any one of the knobs 6 G the plunger at the bottom of a tube holding a corresponding coin will be forced to the rear, and that when the knob is allowed to rise by the action of the spring S the coin will be forced out of the tube onto the table 9, from which it can be readily removed by the hand through the aperture D. Vhcn the locking bar l0 is thrown down behind the bell-cranks 5 5, an attempt to depress any one ot the knobs 6 6 will force the locking-bar backward slight-ly and will cause the clapper17 to ring the alarmbell, and thus attention will be called to the fact that some one is meddlingwith the coinchange box.

In use it will be understood that a certain amount of money in coin is placed in the several coin-tubes and that no money shall be taken therefrom unless another coin or coins of larger amount shall be placed in the coin-tubes, and that when any amount of money is added to the amount already in the change-tubes a corresponding amount shall be registered on a cylinder or cylinders by depressing a knob or knobs indicating an amount equivalent to the additional sum placed in the coin-tubes. Thus, if a coin of the value of one dollar be placed in a cointube and two coins, one of the value of fifty cents and the other ot the value of twentyfive cents, be taken from the coin-tubes, the remaining amount (twenty-five cents) should be registered on the cylinder by depressing the registering-knob 31 having the figures 25 cts. thereon.

In using the registering device the guide 26 is lifted from the groove in which it runs in the cylinder and the tablet 23 is moved to the right-hand side, and the cylinder is then rotated, it necessary, by repeatedly depressing the registering-knob until the space cor- IOO responding with a tooth on the cylinder immediately before the one that registers the figure l is brought beneath the aperture in the tablet, and the guide is then let down into the groove., On depressing the knob the cylinder will be rotated one tooth and the figure I will come beneath the aperture 25, and the process ot depressing the knob and allowing it to rise may be continued until the tablet has been carried forward to the opposite side of the cylinder by its continued rotation, whereupon the guide may be raised and the tablet moved back again to the place of beginning. It will be seen that the pawl 34 prohibits the cylinder from rotating more than one tooth at each depression of the registering-knob, and that each depression of the knob will ring the correspondingbell through the action of pawl 36 and the mechanism thereto attached. In use all the tablets 23 should be placed at the beginning of the line of figures each morning, and at night the sum of the amounts indicated by the several numbers will be the amount of money added to the coin-change tubes during the day if an accurate registry thereof has been made, as should always be done.

44 is a small knob attached to the springlatch 27 for its convenient manipulation.

In the modified form of tablet and guide shown in Fig. 8 the guide 26 is made integral with the tablet and the tablet and guide are hinged and travel laterally on the upper rod 24. I prefer the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7, as that form can be locked in place to the cylinder while it travels on the rods 24 24..

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In the case of a coin-change box, a series of rotating cylinders, each cylinder having crown-toothed edges and a series of numbers in a line in the order of numeration, and a groove alongside of the line of numbers about the cylinder helically, and si ght-tablets, and a rod or rods above the cylinders on which the tablets are supported and travel, the tablets being therefore each pro vided with a guide which enters and travels in the groove about the cylinder, in combination with a `series of pivoted levers designated with different numbers, each of which is adapted to act through a spring-pawl thereto aliixed directly on a'eylinder and by each depression of the lever to rotate the cylinder forward one tooth only, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a rotating cylinder having a line of numbers anda groove alongside in helical form about its periphery, of a traveling sight-tablet and rods on which the tablet is supported and travels, the sighttablet being provided with a hinged guide adapted to enter and travel in the groove on the cylinder, and a locking-latch for securing the guide in position, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a rotating cylinder having a series of numbers on its periphery and crown-toothed edges, of a pivoted oscillating frame near the edge of the cylinder, having a yielding spring-pawl adapted` for engaging the crown-teeth on the cylinder and rotating it, the frame being also provided with an arm and aknob for depressing itand a retrieving-spring for elevating it, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a rotating cylinder provided with a series of numbers on its periphery and means, substantially as described, for indicating' a single number thereon, with an oscillating frame provided with a springpawl adapted to engage with crown-teeth in the edge of the cylinder and a spring checkpawl so located as to engage with the crownteeth on the edge of the cylinder and check its forward rotation, and to be thrown out of engagement with the crown-teeth on the cylinder by the oscillating frame, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a rotating registering-cylinder provided with crown-teeth on its edge, andan oscillating frame adapted by its oscillation to rotate the cylinder, with a swinging click-pawl, a thereto-affixed clapper provided with a retrieving-spring, and a bell on which the clapperstrikes, substantially as described.

6. The combination of several rotating registeringcylinders and oscillating frames adapted severally to rotate one of such cylinders, with bell-clappers severally in contact with said cylinders and adapted to be operated individually thereby and a series of bells each of a diieren't tone from the others, on each of which one of said clappers is adapted to strike, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HANS J. ANDERSON.

Vitnesses:

E. D. CHEsMoRE, W. R. WATERS.

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